Seeing this, the brocade-clothed boy couldn't help but shout: "Why are you arresting me, you can know who your father is!" ”

"No matter who your father is, if you dare to obstruct the collection of taxes, you will be arrested and detained in prison for a day!"

Wu Jiayin, a member of the household department, said a word, and then heard the shopkeeper of the same building, who was caught by the Dongchang fan, sneered: "He is the son of the deputy capital of the left deputy capital Yu Shi Yao Vice Xian, and the property here is the property of Xincheng Bo, and you dare to seize it?" ”

"Why don't you dare, remember to take tax stamps and silver or tax receipts to redeem people in Tianfu", Wu Jiayin said a sentence and put the shopkeeper of the same building and the so-called son of Yao Vice Xian down.

At this time, Huang Jiamo, the imperial history of the patrol city, came to a grain shop, Huang Jiamo waved his hand, and a warden from the Tianfu household came forward: "This is a Gu Ji grain shop, is there a tax stamp?" ”

"Yes", a man wearing a lazy scarf walked out and took out a tax stamp and ten silver dollars: "This is the tax stamp of Ying Tianfu, this is the tax silver we should pay, you can collect it." ”

Huang Jiamo's family is also a generational grain merchant, as long as he looks at the scale of the grain store, he can also judge how much income this grain store has, so he can't help but say when he sees the scale of this grain store now: "This grain shop seems to have an income of tens of thousands of silver dollars a year, according to the latest tax rate announced by the Ministry of Households, your kind of grain shop is at least 1,500 silver dollars or more, why only pay 10 silver dollars." ”

"This official, you can see clearly, the tax stamps on this are indeed ten yuan of tax silver, we are paid according to the tax stamps issued by Yingtianfu, and this is the property of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, don't dare to deceive at all, originally we planned to go to Yingtianfu to pay in person, but because of a temporary delay, we forgot, just because of the delay for a while, you just came to collect the tax in person, and we took the initiative to hand it over to you, I don't know if the tax receipts can be given to me?"

The middle-aged man showed a harmless smile on his face, but what he said was already very clear that this was the property of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and he had already paid the tax according to the tax stamps of the imperial court, and Huang Yushi, who collected taxes, could no longer mess around.

"You didn't take the initiative to go to Yingtianfu, because you were worried that the imperial court would find out the clues."

Huang Jiamo, the imperial history of the city patrol, said, and a Ying Tianfu experience came over and whispered: "This involves Li Butang and Liu Shaoqing, etc., and this is still the property of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, Lord Fengxian, you see, or we will give them tax receipts, so that it will be regarded as a tax, and the Hou Ye will send the silver to your hometown at that time." ”

Huang Jiamo nodded: "Give him the tax receipt, and after it is issued, he will not write the grain shop, only the bookstore." ”

……

Chen Yi, the same governor of Tianfu, sat in the government hall and waited for the merchants of Nanjing City to take the initiative to come to the prefect's yamen to pay taxes.

Yang Mingshen, deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, first brought 200,000 silver dollars to the door to pay taxes, and secondly, the families of major bureaucrats took the initiative to pay taxes.

But when the butler of Zhang Zuochen, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, came to Chen Yi with a tax stamp, Chen Yi was surprised, because the servant of the Zhang family gave him a tax stamp, which was only 1,000 silver dollars.

"Doesn't Zhang Shangshu's family have 100,000 acres of tea gardens, and there are also six or seven tea shops in Nanjing, not to mention an income of 30,000 or 40,000 silver dollars a year, why do you only pay 1,000 silver dollars in taxes?"

As soon as Chen Yizheng asked, the housekeeper smiled: "Chen Tongzhi said that he laughed, when did my Zhang family have so many tea gardens, although I have been a housekeeper in the house for decades, I don't know, how do you know, this is a tax stamp issued by Yingtianfu, I don't believe you, please look at it again." ”

As he spoke, the housekeeper quietly sandwiched a withdrawal note from the Daming Central Bank of two thousand silver dollars under the tax stamp.

Chen Yi's face suddenly turned cold, and he took the bills and tax stamps in his hands: "Take the housekeeper of this mansion into custody, suspend tax collection for an hour, find a fast horse for this official, and this official will rush to the yamen of the household department immediately!" ”

After speaking, Chen Yi immediately ran out, took the horse from the hands of the people below, stepped on it directly, and rode the horse to the Yamen of the household department.

……

As soon as Chen Yi, the same acquaintance of Tianfu, came to the Yamen of the Household Department, he saw Dang Chongya, the left attendant of the Household Department, outside the main hall.

"Slowly, slowly, where are you an official, what are you doing in this household yamen?" Dang Chongya stopped Chen Yi, who was the same knowledge of Tianfu.

"The party department may not know the lower officials, the lower officials should know Chen Yi in the same way as the heavenly government, and if the lower officials urgently ask to see Fan Gelao, they will also ask the party department to help introduce them", Chen Yi was busy giving the party Chongya a face.

"What's important, tell the official the same, the official will pass it in for you, you go back first and hurry up, this household is a place where you can easily come?"

As soon as Dang Chongya said this, Chen Yi handed the tax stamps in the mansion of Zhang Zuochen, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, to Dang Chongya: "According to the lower officials, the family of Zhang Shangshu, the great uncle, is a generation of tea merchants, and his tea garden is not less than 100,000 mu, and half of the good tea in Nanjing is supplied by his family, and his tax stamps should not only be 1,000 silver dollars, and there are also 2,000 silver dollar bills from his housekeeper to Xia Guan, please check it in the Party Department. ”

Dang Chongya glanced at Chen Yi and smiled slightly: "Seeing the slight knowledge, he is worthy of being the proud protégé of the old Lu Ge, but the official has to talk ahead, don't make a noise about this matter first, the official will hand it over to the first assistant, but before the results are out, the official doesn't want to have any gossip about the wrong drafting of the tax stamp, understand, do you know that when this tax stamp was drafted, the commander was the governor of Nanzhili!" Moreover, Zhang Zuochen, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Qi Xieyuan are in-laws, and the wife of Qi Xieyuan is the eldest sister of His Majesty. ”

Chen Yi's heart tightened, and he also knew that this matter involved a wide range of aspects, so he nodded: "Xia Guan understands." ”

"Let's go down", Dang Chongya waved his hand, and walked into the shadow wall, and after confirming that Chen Yi had left, he smiled coldly, tore Zhang Zuochen's tax stamps to shreds, and put them in his sleeve pocket.

However, at this time, a household official came to Dang Chongya: "Ministry, Xin Chengbo sent someone to say that the household member we sent seems to be unkind!" ”

"The officials who collect taxes below are not under the control of the officials, tell them that the taxes that should be paid are paid, and then the officials will return them according to the tax stamps, but don't resist the taxes openly!"

Dang Chongya said and was about to walk into the inner hall of the main hall with his hands behind his back.

As soon as Fan Jingwen, the head of the cabinet, saw Dang Chongya coming in, he asked: "Is the tax collection going well?" ”

"Everything is going well, Ge Lao, but please rest assured, there are people from Dongchang and the Guards, and the dignitaries and dignitaries of Nanjing City dare not do anything", Dang Chongya smiled and said with a smile.

Dang Chongya, the left attendant of the household department, guessed that from today onwards, there would definitely be some uninteresting officials who would poke some unsightly things into Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, who was in charge of revenue and expenditure, so he waited for these officials to arrive in the outer hall of the hall on the pretext of following up on the tax collection situation at any time.

Therefore, Fan Jingwen doesn't know the real secret here.

(End of chapter)